The GoodFather of Math will offer a pot of gold to anyone who can find a darker & funnier
satire on poverty than THE POOR MOUTH by Flann O'Brien, illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
The first illustration, which looks like it was drawn on a slice of toast, is followed
by three quotes. (More are available upon request)
At any rate, I was born there and truly this cannot be stated concerning any other house,
whether that fact be praise or blame.
I was very young at the time I was born and had not aged even a single day. For half a year
I did not perceive anything about me and did not know one person from the other.
Sometimes the smell in our house was so bad that I asked my mother to send me to school,
even though I could not walk correctly.
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